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More than half a million Coloradans live in a county with few or no treatment options for people suffering from opioid addiction.
The nation is in the midst of an epidemic of opioid addiction and overdose deaths, and Colorado is no exception. Medication-assisted treatment, or MAT, is a proven way to fight this epidemic. It’s an evidence-based approach recommended by a wide range of respected scientific sources for the treatment of addiction to opioids, a category of drug that derives from the opium poppy and includes prescription pain pills as well as heroin.
This interactive dashboard and analysis explore substance use in Colorado’s high schools using data from the 2015 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey.
More than one of 15 (7.4 percent) Medicare prescriptions in Colorado is for opioids — prescription drugs such as codeine and oxycodone, data from 2014 show. That is 1.7 percentage points higher than the national rate.
This interactive dashboard and analysis explore marijuana in Colorado’s high schools using data from the 2015 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey.
The burning question about tobacco and its future in Colorado
This interactive dashboard and analysis explore smoking among Colorado’s high schoolers using data from the 2015 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey.
The Colorado Health Institute (CHI) has analyzed new county-level estimates on drug overdose deaths by county from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a report and a time-lapse map.